Samriddhi

Samriddhi Project Document
recognised that a strong social capital strengthens civil society, and is critical to socio-economic
growth and the sustainability of development actions. 5
HID will constitute a key approach in the project, which will however focus on two particular
aspects. The community platforms will be capacitated to work towards an empowering and
enabling local environment, to participate in local governance and establish linkages with
different support organisations. Regarding the MSEs and SPAs, the HID support will contribute
to strengthen their capacities in terms of business development, outreach and inclusiveness.
The approach will phase out during the third year of the phase. During the phasing-out phase,
HID should then be integrated in normal activities of community platforms, MSEs and SPAs.
The M4P approach uses the economic transactions of the poor as an entry point to its analyses
and interventions. Its interventions are focused on changing the market based systems around
the poor’s transactions with the aim to make economic opportunities more accessible to them.
Interventions aim to achieve institutional changes by defining functions of the market systems
and finding appropriate actors within the system to fulfil these functions according to their
incentives and capacities. By applying these principles, M4P projects generally reach a high
level of sustainability. The M4P approach will be directed to establish sustainable and inclusive
market systems for the selected value chains including MSEs and service providers.
In combination, the HID and M4P approaches provide a powerful framework for poverty
reduction, focusing not only on social or market development but integrating the two by
strengthening and empowering the community and at the same time improving the market
systems to work better for the poor.
Besides that, gender mainstreaming will contribute to the empowerment of women and
improved situation of women entrepreneurs. The mainstreaming of DRR will contribute to
protect the assets that the target households could establish with the support of the project.
4.5 Strategies
Consolidation and institutionalisation
Consolidation of successful previous interventions will be at the centre of Samriddhi with a view
to make the system function sustainably without project interventions. The interventions
targeted for consolidation are mainly:
• Community empowerment and building social capital through HID.
• Strengthening competitiveness of rural products, value addition at producer level and
improved chain performance through value chain development.
• Enhancing the capacity of rural MSEs in business management and in the acquisition of
financial capital for their operations through capacity building and collaboration with
microfinance institutions, banks and private companies.
• Strengthening local service provision through capacity building of SPAs and
collaboration with government line agencies and private companies.
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See: Human and Institutional Development. A Process of Capacity Development for socio-economic
empowerment. The experience of Intercooperation in South Asia. 2007.
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